A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.Mark Twain
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.Lee Kuan Yew
The first obligation of a government is to protect the people, not to direct their lives.Ronald Reagan
Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.Milton Friedman
Higher taxes will not reduce the deficit, except for a brief interval. They will simply increase government spending. That is the lesson taught by past experiences.Milton Friedman
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.Ayn Rand
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.Rush Limbaugh
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.Ludwig von Mises
I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.Michael Arrington
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.Ron Paul
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.Larry Ellison
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.Andrew Jackson
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.Bob Riley
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.Arthur Laffer
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.Dambisa Moyo
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.Voltaire
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.Barack Obama
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.Barack Obama
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Plato
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.Henry David Thoreau
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.Abraham Lincoln
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.Ronald Reagan
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.Thomas Jefferson
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Woodrow Wilson
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.Thomas Sowell
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.Ruth Bader Ginsburg